I agree with Grant. In addition, my advice includes that you should move before someone else makes that choice for you. Getting a new job is much easier when you...

I wish we could easily avoid AI and go back to a search engine that understands Boolean operators. I have never had CoPilot provide a code sample that worked as...

Almost every company I've ever worked for had a policy that the central MIS/IT organization only handled issues that involved more than one department - an "enterprise" issue, not a...

I worked from home decades ago when I was in an office where there were plenty of other employees in my company. Still, I had no interactions with them (I...

• This reply was modified 4 months, 2 weeks ago by m60freeman.

It seems that we get an AI-generated summary of even the simplest of searches, regardless of the search engine we choose. There doesn't seem to be a user-settable default we...

The article makes it seem like the locking for all options is the same. It neglects to mention the differences in the scale of the locking: one row at a...

• This reply was modified 4 months, 4 weeks ago by m60freeman.

IIF is the one I use, generally to replace something simple like:

 SELECT   CASE
              WHEN Column1 IS NULL 
     ...

• This reply was modified 7 months ago by m60freeman.

I agree that is an essential first step. However, I find it infuriating when, having...

I don't have a degree and I am near the end of my career as an IT person.  I recognise myself as more of a doer than a deep...

I'm with Andy about creating a spreadsheet to calculate the total reward of an offer. As you say, health insurance in the US is a significant factor, but most people...

• This reply was modified 9 months ago by m60freeman.

Some people only learn lessons the hard way. I once worked for a company that had their own data center with a truck-size UPS but management wouldn't buy a generator...

I've almost always received comp time for overtime work, and with one employer, comp time and a half. I once worked on a consulting gig where I was paid time...

C# developers writing TSQL Stored Procedures. I can forgive putting parentheses around IF predicates, but not all the CURSORs and WHILE loops. Also, databases generated from EF object models in...

Unit tests do not require production size databases, although load tests do and are important as well, once all the unit and integration tests are complete.

Code coverage is important, but...

• This reply was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by m60freeman.

I work 100% from home. Several years ago, I talked my employer into funding two 24" monitors for my home office. When they agreed, I bought two 27" ones via...